Guardian Council says NO to Iran Election redo

OK, so, it’s not just Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei who’s a hard-liner. Or a denier of reality. The Council of Guardians not only said no to a do-over, it denied the need for one:

On Press TV, the English-language state television satellite broadcaster, Abbas-Ali Kadkhodaei, the spokesman for the Guardian Council, declared: “If a major breach occurs in an election, the Guardian Council may annul the votes that come out of a particular affected ballot box, polling station, district, or city.”

“Fortunately, in the recent presidential election we found no witness of major fraud or breach in the election,” he said.

“Therefore, there is no possibility of an annulment taking place.”

Kadkhodaei then brushed off specific accusations, while Khamenei himself said Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s margin of victory was so big as to preclude fraud.